Cee’s Photographyhosts several of her own photo challenges and keeps a listing of other blogger’s photo challenges.

A Self-Published Author

Once I began writing posts for my blog, I quickly saw the importance of featuring a compelling image to illustrate the post’s content. As I further honed my writing and photography skills, the idea of a guidebook came to mind. My first eBook, Better Blogging with Photography, was published on Amazon Kindle in July 2016. Read more on my book page.

My next book, No Excuses Fitness, is in production in 2020. Here is an example of the cover.

Here is a little more about me:

My summer weekends are spent in the Sacramento delta windsurfing and stand-up paddling (SUP) with my husband of three years (we knew each other in high school and found each other on Facebook—read about that here).

WHY DO I BLOG? These are my goals:

The goal of this blog is to educate people about the importance of leisure and a healthy lifestyle, one blog post at a time!

I love photography and constantly take pics with my Lumix FZ-300 and my Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. Sharing these photos in posts and on Instagram is a much-loved hobby!

Good day! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I
truly enjoy reading through your articles. Can you suggest any other
blogs/websites/forums that cover the same subjects?
Appreciate it!

You certainly have lots going on in your leisure life. So do all of us in our large family. I look forward to reading from your varied topics. I too plan to blog a book filled with my various life stories and interests. They’re way too varied to peg them into one category. I’m glad to meet you.

HI, Terri! Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my post More bad news on extra belly fat. Congrats on your retirement! That’s a wonderful achievement. You certainly seem to be doing a great job of it. Really like your photography, too.

What a wonderful About-me-page. I always read people’s About-page just to know which interests people have, what they do or have done. I think that About-page is a window to blogger’s world, telling about his / her world with text and photos.

It is a richness that we all are different with different hobbies and interests, but at same time finding some similar things which touch both readers and the blogger itself. Although I am a senior citizen, my life differs from yours, but at same time, there are similar things like life activities and finding things, which keep us young and our brains fresh. Retirement is not the end of life, but the beginning of new active life.

Terri, I love the idea of a blog about leisure! I think it’s a lost art. We work too hard and for too long. Not to mention take live too seriously. I’m glad you found my blog, thanks for following. Hope you’ll stop by often, doors always open at Jean’s Writing.

Great to meet you Terri, via our mutual and lovely friend Hugh 🙂 As a Brit who lived in California for almost 20 years and raised my three children there, I am always keen to find blogs like yours. You are right, there aren’t too many actual lifestyle blogs, I’m very grateful to Hugh for leading me to you and will look forward to reading your posts. Hubby and I have just got ourselves a motorhome (RV…but not like the big American ones, lol!) and I hope to start posting more about our adventures at some point. I too love taking photos and join with challenges when I can, but as I wind my way through the second draft of my memoir, my blogging time is limited at the moment. But I did just want to visit you and say it’s lovely to meet you ~ Sherri 🙂

Thanks to Hugh, found your lovely blog. Such a great concept you have here, to write about leisure. It is so often overlooked. I am struck by how often folks retire and wait to die, having never cultivated the joy that can be found in recreation. I look forward to exploring more of your blog. ☺ Van

Hi Terri, Really looking forward to exploring your blog further! I see we participate in some of the same photo challenges and I want to check out yours.

Can I ask you a question please? I have just started a second blog and am trying to figure out how word press works. If you click on my name to get to my blog does it take you to my original blog ( nihongojapango) or my new photographic blog ( you inspire me). Interested to know as I want to get a collection of photographic blogs to follow under my photographic blog umbrella but in terms of the like and comment notifications everything just comes in jumbled up for both blogs.

Hi Terri, just a quick note to say that as a token of my appreciation and staying with me, I have nominated you for the latest award I have received, Blogger Recognition Award. You don’t HAVE to accept it, but it would be nice if you did. 🙂 Here is the post where you can read more about my nomination:

Hi Terri – your blog looks terrific, and I love to see people over 50 (heehee, one of my blogs is http://www.howtobe50.wordpress.com) doing such cool stuff! Hope to see you around the blogosphere!
Charlotte

Really kind of the follow. I am a firm believer in leisure. Like which ever wise person said, ‘i love work; I can sit and watch it for hours’ personally I walk more than anything (apart from baking maybe) so I may bump into you in the great outdoors sometime, if not then in this blog!

Hi Marje, so nice to meet you! thanks for the follow and I am following back. I like your blog and the topics on which you write! We must have some bloggers in common, because I have seen your name pop up in other bloggers’ comments 🙂

Quite an interesting bio! I am nearing retirement. A child of the 50’s, my wife and I have 5 teenage daughters (all adopted) at home while our bio daughter is married and doing well. I am looking forward to travel and photography during the retirement years. I started to the blog as a preemptive entry into that sphere! Thanks for stopping by my blog – I enter many of the photo challenges that you do so we should run across each other from time to time.

Hi Terri, I looked carefully to see if you do accept blog awards and didn’t find anything. I hope this doesn’t mean you stay away from these chain awards, as I would love you to accept it. Anyway, the post is here:

As I am soon to enter my 50s (sigh) I was inspired by your writing and your positive and upbeat attitude. I look forward to reading more as you venture forth in writing and your other interests. All the best as you work towards your goals! Happy blogging and travels from a travel family, Cheryl

Thanks for following us Terri 🙂 Happy to have found your blog as well! We just moved to New Zealand and I am loving all the water sports here – I see lot of Stand up paddleboarding, looks fun! We just took up sea kayaking for now, and I can’t wait to get my refresher diving course done so can start scuba diving again 🙂 Look forward to sharing and reading more posts of life and outdoors leisure!

That’s just wonderful, relaxing fun! Your page is ridiculously popular and well deserved, since you write about what puts smiles on most people’s faces. I enjoy what you are doing. God bless and keep having fun!

Hi Terri. I hope you don’t mind… I invited you to take part in the Five Days Challenge. It involves posting photos and writing something to go with them. No worries if you’d rather not participate, but if you would like to, you can find the details here…https://throughthelensofmylife.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/solitude/
If you do participate, have fun!

Thanks for the follow Terri.
I love your very defined points of “why you blog” Looking forward to encouraging each other as fellow bloggers. Hopefully this will encourage us forward to achieve our goals! 🙂

I’m so glad I stumbled on your blog. I was inspired to create a collage of examples regarding the Blogging 201 assignments AND included you! Hopefully this will send more support your way. Check out the post and the other blogs when you can. Thanks!

I just read your interview and found it very interesting and thank you for adding me as one of your favorite blogs. I am so glad that you enjoy reading my blog and I also look forward to reading your blog. Best wishes.

Hi Terri , happy retiree in the making , shall I say…? just sighted yours through common network . all the best for your next phase of life from , coincidentally , me , also hanging up boots by end of this year , after 37 years in a corporate career…best wishes…raj

Hi! Thanks for your reply… I completely understand and I’m glad your blog was also awarded by other bloggers! Its great!
I’m glad you enjoy reading my blog and that we have similar interests as well!
Cheers from NYC!!

Terri, You sound like a great person with an interesting, vital Second Life yet to go. I really like your quest to help others recreate. I think we (as a boomer group and maybe as a culture) have lost a lot of understanding about how to have a good time- with nothing that requires electricity! LOL

I know a friend who would love to connect with you, as well. Good luck with all your projects, and May God Bless You in Your Next Journey!

A Little Bit About Me

I am a leisure educator (university adjunct faculty), self-published author, and retired recreation and parks practitioner living in Northern California. Second Wind Leisure Perspectives is my blog about living a leisure lifestyle.